Show AT THE CAPITAL POLITICS TABOOED but cleveland and his cop associate had few friends there ENQUIRER correspondence washington sept 23 1892 washington ia proud of its G A R encampment record aa it has every right to be it baa disappointed the croakers at home and abroad and shown that it has superiors and few if any equals as a host and mind you it ie no small task to satisfactorily entertain a crowd eliat more than doubles a cites lien hundreds of veterans who are regular attendants at the annual en camp ments say that other cities have treated them well but nose haye ever treated them so well aa washington has done the veterans made to feel that washington belonged belo need to them and during the entire week there was a good natured rivalry among washing to see who could do the most to enhance the favorable impression mede up m the veterans when they arrived the work of the local committee haa been wonderful it exhibited to the visitors the most handsomely decorated city they hed ever seen it furnished comfortable free sleeping quarters to veterans and arranged for an ample supply of food for them at reasonable prices it introduced for the pleasure of the visitors an entirely new method of fancy electric illumination for streets it arranged a system of reunions with the aid of gen palmer and his staff that was a decided improvement in that line it gave an exhibition of fireworks as fins as ever seen in washington it stationed courteous wherever it was thought information might be desired by veterans in short if anything was left undone that have added to the comfort of its guests it was because nobody had suggested it to the committee the president who returned to the white house in company with sirs harridon Harr who ia still in a critical condition wednesday morning was in no frame of mind to take any part in the entertainments for his comrades but he was pleased to know that everything had been so enjoyable to them and be so expressed himself to the committee vice president morton who took the presidents place in receiving the parade said 1 I am delighted everything has been perfect secretary charles fostr said this ia undoubtedly the biggest week in the history of the G A R secretary tacy ait ia the greatest thing out attorney general miller why this ia the biggest thing in the it surpasses belief it ia highly creditable to citizens ani soldiers postmaster general wanamaker Wh its a great occasion I 1 an proud of my state and her soldiers proud of my country and proud that I 1 am entitled to wear the badge of the G A R aen scofield accustomed all my life to military affairs I 1 am astonished at this demonstration it is a revelation denb F Butler Great is i the only word for it I 1 should have come to this encampment if it had been necessary to come on a stretcher ex president R B hancs 1 I expected something big but I 1 confess that I 1 have been astonished senator mad arcon hawley and palmer all members of the senate military committee agree in pronouncing the parade the grandest of the G A R and everybody teles aye with them partisan politics were tabooed during the encampment but it required no special effort to ascertain that mr cleveland and hia copperhead associate on the democratic ticket haa few it any friends among the rank and fila of the G A R the veterans cannot forget if they wanted to the treatment of han poor comrades at the hands of mr cleveland when ha was president tha simplicity of republican institutions has never been more fittingly exemplified than when an ex president of united states eatherford B ht yes marched on foot ia the great parade in the ranks of the ohio post ol 01 which he is an honored member many think be ard ar d not mr morton should have reviewed the parade not because mr morion was in any way objectionable but because he was not a soldier and gen hayea was and a gallant one too |